Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprised to learn that such intelligent and progressive people still do such apparently silly things, tho, of course, I had heard that the British were, or seemed ta be, quite fond of things ceremonious and ritualistic. However, I won't laugh at them now. First, let British readers suggest some things which U. S. people (I know of no other adequate term for inhabitants of U.S.A., and always hope TIME will coin one) do which seem equally as foolish to the British. Of course Prohibition will be one, but there must be others...
Considering the punch which Aristide Briand has placed aforetime into French denials of German requests for evacuation this was conciliation indeed. "Permit me to suggest," replied Dr. Stresemann smilingly, "that your troops could be spared the inhuman experience of a winter evacuation by leaving...
...establish [parity] by agreement before we resign ourselves to establish it by rival construction programs. ... I fear you have been misinformed as to the actual problems that lie before us, for they are far more intricate and difficult than can be solved by the simple formula which you suggest...
George Washington was warrior, statesman, sportsman, gentleman. Yet few pictures or statues of him suggest more than one side of his nature. In Artist Gilbert Stuart's famed portrait he is a gracious, handsome worthy. Other paintings depict him as a conventional, bewigged military man; a somewhat pompous dignitary. The Washington nose, thought too big for beauty, was usually modified. There was a keenness in the face, too, that most artists missed...
...tightrope. Dangerous Curves employs Solution No. 2. Clara Bow gets the kiss in the fadeout. She is a better actress than her usual It-girl role would lead you to expect, but in most of her scenes she is not trying to act so much as to suggest, rather over-consciously, how "cute" she is. Best shot: Kay Francis in front of a bedroom door...